Imaginary Cinema Awards 2018

In all the excitement this year I completely forgot to post my awards for the best fantasy, horror and sci-fi movies of last year. So here goes, for anyone who cares...

Best Movie: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
Runners-up: A Quiet Place, Black Panther, Bumblebee, Annihilation, The Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs, Avengers: Infinity War, Sorry to Bother You, The House with a Clock in Its Walls, Teen Titans Go to the Movies, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hereditary

Best Screenplay: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Phil Lord and Rodney Rothman)
Runners-up: A Quiet Place, Annihilation, Sorry to Bother You

Best Direction: John Krasinski (A Quiet Place)
Runner-up: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman (Spider-Man), Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), Alex Garland (Annihilation)

Best Actress: Toni Collette (Hereditary)
Runners-up: Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween), Natalie Portman (Annihilation), Hailee Steinfeld (Bumblebee, Spider-Man), Letitia Wright (Black Panther), Michelle Pfeiffer (Ant-Man and the Wasp)

Best Actor: Michael Jordan (Black Panther)
Runners-up: Josh Brolin (Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2), Lakeith Stanfield (Sorry to Bother You), John Cena (Bumblebee)

Best Music: Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat)
Runner-up: Avengers: Infinity War (Alan Silvestri), Halloween (John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies)

Best Sound: A Quiet Place

Best Visual Effects: Avengers: Infinity War
Runners-up: Bumblebee, Christopher Robin, Solo: A Star Wars Story

Best Production Design: Black Panther
Runners-up: Mary Poppins Returns, The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Best Editing: A Quiet Place

Best Make-up: The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Best Costumes: Black Panther
Runner-up: Mary Poppins Returns

Best remake of The Shining: The middle part of Ready Player One. The rest of the movie… eh.

Most Pointless Sequel/prequel: Solo: A Star Wars Story. I didn’t hate it, but there was no need to learn about young Han Solo. What he did before he reluctantly became a hero in A New Hope is unimportant. And don’t get me started on that cameo.

Disappointment of the Year: Ralph Breaks the Internet. Pixar and Marvel aside, Disney released a lot of films that were perfectly okay, but should have been a lot better. I chose this over A Wrinkle in Time, because at least A Wrinkle in Time had a positive message. Ralph 2 was just blah in almost every way.

Guilty Pleasure: Rampage

Best straight to DVD/streaming: Birdbox (yes, I know it had a limited release, but Netflix is really bad at those)

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